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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

''By our fruits ye shall judge u.s." said
Col. Craig at the Republican nominating
meeting. Well the people have judged
you! They find the account to stand thus;
TO the Lawyers, Doctors, Editors and a
sill gle Family connection ia Augusta
county, the nice little sum of SIT 400.
To "the hGTDy-handed son of toll''; a
nomination to run one hopeless campo ign.
Balance in favor of Lawyers, Doctors,
Editors, &c, SIT 400.
"By our fruits Ye shall judge us?''
Well there you standl Il is taken from
the record. What have you got to say
about i5-not to the Democrats, they
don't want any explanation, but to the
Republican Laboring man whose friend
you say you are?
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

Sherman, Foraker, Blaine and Fair
child. claim that the Southern States hold
their representation in Congress by fraud,
theft, murder ard corruption. Two menu
bers of their party, Messrs. Craig and
Dunlap. are candidates for the legisla-
ture in Augusta. Vote them down next
Tuesday.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
Democratic Rally.
MONDAY NIGHT, NOV. 9TH, IN
STANTON.

GOV. WILSON, OF WEST VIR-
GINA, and U, S. SEN ATOR JNO. E.
KENNA., will address the people from
the Court House steps in Staunton. on
Monday night next at 9 O'Clock.
There will be music, fireworks and illu-
mination. Our county friends are invited
to attend.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

The VALLEY Virginian " says vote for
Craig and Dunlap us for free schools and
their liberal support Liberal indeed;
with coupons! Mr.. Craig pays his school
tax IN coupons. and MIR. Dunlap Is going
to vote for him. and support him in it,
There are two liberal supporters of the
free schools! Crawford and Echols pay
their school tax, in money. and tbs money
goes to the education of the children of
the State.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

1t you are Democratic Knight of La.
boo you can point to your Democratic leg
islature as having passed the mechanics
lien law, the anti convict-labor law, and the
anti-store-order law, aud to Democratic
Governor who took from contractor con-
victs that he discovered he was using In
work that free working Deu ought to do.
If you are Republican Knight of Labor
you Can look over the record of the four
years your party was in power in Virginia,
and you'll not find one act for the benefit
of Laboring men.
And the Democratic Knights of Labor
are asked to follow Republican Knight
of Labor into the Republican party
What for !? Take that question home
with you and think over it before you
vote Tuesday.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

An organic stion calling Itself Poiti-
cal party, that tucks its tail between its
legs and runs away directly it sees petty
Federal Judge reach cut for a pen to
write an unconstitutional order, ought to
be ashamed to ask for the control of a
town ward much less a great Common
wealth
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
Il the Republican party was in control

Ii the Republican party was in control
of Virginia, the Janitor of Judge Bonds
Mansion and kick the Republican Cover
nor cut without protest from his party
or its press. If the Governor felt little
sore under it, they would rebuke him for
his weakness and stupidity" and beg
him not 10 array himself against the high
est court of the United States.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

Mr.. Dunlap says he intends to do what
he thinks for the interest of Augusta
The people of Augusta don't intend he
shall be elected. They want men like
Crawford and Echols who will do what
the people think. And the people.
for one thing, don't think voting for
William Malone is for the interest Of
Augusta county.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

Who are you going to vote for next
Tuesday? For EchOls and Crawford who
belong to the party of Grover Cleveland
and Wade Hampton, or for Craig and
Dunlap who belong to the party of Fora
ker, Sherman and Mahone2
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

What does the "horny-ha1ded soa of
toil'' think of Col. Craig's Repubhcas leg
lslature of 1912 that appropriated $780,
600 to the University of Virginia and the
Virginia Military Institute Ito educate
rich mems sons2 y
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
DON'T MAKE Il MISTAKE
A BIIJI TP.

Don't let yourself be deceived into for
getting who and what the Republican can
didates are politically. It h 8 been sought
to make you believe that this is a fight be-
tween Echol5 and Crawford. and Craig and
Duniap-mersly a choice OF meo; that the
issue is only Wa.5 this Of that man thinks
about the dsot settlement Or some Stats
policy. There is far mora than that In il!
The question is whether you will elect
members Of this National Democratic par
ty Of which Cleveland. Thurman. Randall
Carlisle, Gen. Gordon, Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton, Fitz Lee, Zab. Vance are members;
or whether you mllt elect members of the
Sectional Republican party OF which For
aker, Sherman, Malone, Blaine, Fair
child are members. Echols and Crawford
are of tie party of Cleveland, Thurman,
and the rest. Craig and Dunlap are Of
the party of Foraker. Sherman and the
other maligners of the South. The Au-
gusta delegates are to vote for a U. S.
Senator. Shall they be men who will select
one TO cooperate with Grover Cleveland,
Or men who will select one to cooperate
with Sherman, Foraker and the other Sec
tional South haters? DON'T make a mis-
take about lit is not mere county cleo
ton, it is q National election.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
THE THREE REP UBLICA Ms
FOR SETTLING " THE DEBT.


Col. W. E. Craig told the Courthouse
nominating meeting that ''the Republican
party is the only party that has brains
enough to settle the debt.'' Let's look at
this braiDy side of it.
The ''Valley Virgini an." which is con-
fessedly the brains Of The Republican
party, wants to lower its flag to the bond
holders; declares all opposition to the
usurpation of petty Federal Judge in
Virginia, to bs ''weakness and stupidity"
and favors unconditional surrender The
result of this would be an increase of the
debt and higher taxes.
Mr.. W. Bailey Dunlap wants to ac-
knowledge before the world that the peo-
pie Of Virginia know nothing about their
debt question, and have not the capaci ty
to know what they are able to pay; and to
hand over the State to Commission of
Business Men to say what the farmers and
laborsrs of the Commonwealth shall pay!
In the mean while. to prevent losing any
time he will vote for +. j. Craig, to go TO
the legislature, so the creditors may be
getting SOM cash in advance of the action
of the Business Men. The result OF that
will be increase of the debt and higher
taxes.
Mr.. Ben. ]. Craig. the most practical of
the three, takes the plan of every man for
himself and the - take the State-He
saves himself first by paying his taxes in
: coupons. While the other two are taxing
their brains as to how the situation is to be
quieted, he takes care of his own tax bill
with coupons at fifty cents 10 the dollar,
and leaves the State, schools and asylums
to go to ruin. Tae ultimate result of that
course is the increase of the debt, and
higher taxes.
These are the three propositions OF 1.-THE
only party that has brains enough to settle
the debt ~ How does the taxpayer like
it? How does the poor mai with chill
dren to send to the public schools like It ?
In speech at LONDON, Ohio, Tuesday
of last week, Governor Foraker said,
among other Things II see that Cover
nor Gordon is coming here TO proclaim t;e
fealty of the Southern people to the Union.
1t that is all, he need not come. We have
NO doubt of their fealty now. There is 80
danger that they will ever take up arms
against the Union. They were whipped
once, and do not care for more of it, TGoy
wouldn't fight now if forced into cotEer
and insulted." That is the man WHO
marches under the same Republican par
ty banner with John Sherman and VIII
liam Mahone. And the people Of Angus
ia are asked to follow BeDJ. J. Craig and
W. Bailey Dunlap into that party
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

We had hoped that one would ever have
the audacity to appeal to the spirit that pre-
vailed in 1885, two weeks before the election
of that year-that no one would wish to re-
vive the remembrance of the Dissertation of
the Sabbath which took place in the city of
Staunton by handbills being circulated at the
the church doors, and sent by couriers to every
portion of the valley, Haunting monstrous
falsehood that ''negro instruction" had
taken place in Danville-causing consterna-
ton throughout the Commonwealth The
people are familiar with the events of that
terrible tragedy, and the designed effect it had
in the sudden and unexpected excitement
which followed j aNey VirGinian.
If audacity Is ever required to refer to
1888, it seems to US that an organ Of the
Republican party ought to be fully
equipped with it before making the faint
est alluslon to that campaign. At Danville.
a month before the election. the Negro
Republicans held a meeting and adopted
resolutions calling on the President to
| send troops there election day. On Sat
urday. Nov. 4th. three days before the
lent harangues had been made at Negro
meeting-a fight between white Demo-
GRAFT and N egro Republican grew into a
riot, in which three white Democrats and
| seven Negro Republicans were shot. All
| through the Sunday and Monday follow
ing, this vile and incendary appeal was
circulated by Republicans throughout
every part OF Virginia it could reach;
through Negro homes ard churches, to
arouse an Ignorant race to vengeance.
''iSic co1ored men murdered By Bourbon
| m06si Colored men! Avenge, by your bal
lots, on Tuesday, the 9th November, the
murder of five colored men at Danville, Satur-
day night, and the murder of Robert Robert
son, in Hanover, by Bourbon Funder mob.
| go to the polls and avenge, by a solid
| vote, the murder of these men,"
We do not remember having seen the
| Sunday circulation Of this vile and danger
| GUS Republican partisan call denounced by
| cur neighbor as a ''desecration of the Sab
| BATH" Or that it even condemned it's de
| signed effect" which was simply mon
| strous. We cannot understand why our
| pious and Sabbath keeping neig hbor re-
| Trained from characteriZing it as it thinks
such conduct deserves, unless, because it
holds that every thing a Republican does,
from sending out incendiary circulars to
an ignorant and excited population of
blacks on the Sabbath, up to the usurpa-
tion of the State cove. nment by a petty
Federal Judge is right, and all efforts to
counterfeit either are "audaeity" or
weakness and stupidity Our cotem-
porary will probably now see that it is
sometimes aWk ward to "revive the remem-
brance;'' it may bring up other remem-
brances of 1888, disgraceful not only TO-
tie Republican party but TO civilization.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
--aR%~~~~-
SIT DO WN.

How are the Farmers and Mechanics
represented among the cAnvassers now
going through the eounty2 On the
Republican side not farmer or mechanic
speaking; on the Democratic side three
farmers-J. W. Churchman, John II.
Crawford and a. B. Llghtner. They
DON'T give them any Offices when they have
any; don't nominate them for any when
there is a chance OF their getting them,
and don't even let them open their lips.
lis like it was at the Republican nomi-
mating meeting of Lawyers, Doctors and
Editors IN the Court House:
Oct. 9tl. Mr.. Samuel M. Woods (Far-
mer).-Mr. Chairman, | have a resolution
in the interest Of the farmers about rail
roads fencing in their tracks
Editor Y os5.-Sit down Mr.. Woods.
Presiding Doctor Robson-Slt down
Mr.. Woods.
John A. Noon Farmer, pieadlugly).-
We farmers want something done for US.
Chorus of Doctors, Lawyers and Edi-
tors.-Sit d-o-e0-n MIR. Noon.
The curtain falls ON the two Republi-
can farmers sitting down. and sat upon.
SECOND ACT.
NovelaJer BIB, Messrs. Craig and Dun
lap.-Farmers Of Augusta we want your
votes to-day to 60 to the
Chorus of Farmers d0eon! It is
our time now. If you want votes you
go to the Lawyers, Doctors and Editors
for them.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
HIS THRONE IS THE BALLOT

There is 10 coupon small enough to be
used by the poor man who pays his 81
capitgtion tax. He can t save so cents In
the dollar by taking one, he has to pay One
Dollar in good and lawful money. It
comes hard but it goes easy into the col
Letting cfficer's hands. Let us hope that
its going is made easier to him from the
knowledge that it finally gets TO the
School Fund for the education of his own
and the children of other workers.
But it is not SO with the comfortable rich
man. II he choose he doesn't pay cent
to the State. He ID rich and takes big
coupons and plenty Of them at half price
from the Republican coupon peddlers.
He just walks into the Treasurer'S Office,
goes through the form Of rendering cou-
pons, and walks Off without having left a
dollar in the Office. No public school
troubles him. No schooling of wage
workers children troubles him. Good
crops, no taxes, private teacher for his
children-the world wags easy with him,
and the sun shines, But there does come
time when the Wage-worker can make
the Gay cloudy fer him. It is when he
comes to run for Office. Then the Wage
worker can Fill the air with so many bal
lots against him that he cannot see the
sun shine, be it ever SO bright. 1t is when
he comes up for office that the wage
worker Can step up to the ballot box and
politically blackball him. They are in the
humor for it in Augusta to-day. Two can
didates are up before thenl-Benj. j. Craig
who tenders coupons, and w. Bailie Dun
j lap who is running on the same ticket
with him, was nominated with him, is
supporting hin, and will vote for him.
These two will find that there is a judg-
ment day now and then at which the
Wage. W. rker presldes in a strength that
cannot be overcome and with determi-
nation that is irnplacable. The Ballot
Box is the throne from which he issues
his edict that no man who does not fairly
share with him the burdens of the gov
eminent shall have its honors by his vote.
No money for Public Schools ? Then no
ballot of mine. No money for the Asylnms?
Then no ballot of mine. Allies of the
creditors against Old Virginia? Then no
ballot OF mine; none now, nor ever.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

The Democ Secretary of the Navy
place the new iron cruiser, to cost So AGO.
900, is to ba built. and directed that the
building shall commence at oEce. When,
under Republican rule, was this much
work ever given to the Laboripg Men of
Virginia by a Republican Secretary of
the Navy? Under their rule the Southern
yards we're used only for putting on coat
Of paint Or some little job Of cobbling.
All the big work with big money in it,
went up North to John Roach and other
pet contractors. The sum of So, 400 GOO
spent among Virginia Workingmen is a
fine thing to commence hard winter
with.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

In what respect does the VINDIoAToR think
Messrs. Echols and Crawford are superior to
Messrs. Dunlap and Craig ?-Vazzey Vm-
gjaaian,
Echols and Crawford pay their school
tax in money, and Mr.. Craig pays his in
for him to go to the legislature. BY one
plan the schools are kept open, the num-
Der of school houses increased. larger
number Of children educated and the
teachers paid regularly. By the other
plan the school system is wrecked and
ruined as it has been once before. Now
which do you think are superior?
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. 4. 1887.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04
The Staunton indicator.

AnTndependent Democratic Paper established
IN 1910
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-11-04

Election Tuesday, Nov. 8tb. 1887.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-09
Lincoln and the Soldiers.

While the president was at Frederick
City he passed a house containing large
number of rebel wounded.
"Stop," said he; "let us go in here"
And standing up in that hospital, Mr..
Lincoln said aloud that if the wounded
men had no objection he would be glad
to take them by the hand.
1.-THE solemn obligation" said he, (which
we owe to our country and posterity COM
pels the prosecution of this war, but it Is
probable that many are our enemies
through uncomfortable circumstances
bear these no malice, and take them by
the hand with sympathy and good feel
ing"
Looking at the tall man standing there,
the embodiment in their ignorance and
intensity of all the hatred they bore the
Union, strange dissonance, like bells
that begin to Jingle before they are
chimed, went through the house. The
silence continued until it looked as If
there was no brotherhood. Suddenly,
one man walked up and took the presi-
dents hand The others caught the in.
lection and followed. 1t was the strang-
est reception of the civil war-C,ncin-
natl Enquirer.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-09
Don't Be a Chump.

Ii you are a chump, conceal it. For
policy's sake, for society's sake, for your
own sake. Be gentleman on the street,
no matter how hurried you are, no mat
ter how worried you may be. Be gen.
tleman in public conveyances especially.
Don't insist on your rights at all times.
If you are first in a street car it is your
right to take vacant seat, or sit next the
street in an open car. Nobody can dis
pute this right The aisle may be crowded
full of ladies standing, or they may
have to crowd past you to get an inside
place. You can insist on your rights
and make them do it, but you are a
chump.
You may argue to yourself that you
have right to the best that is open when
you enter the conveyance; that you pay
your fare and are entitled to reasonable
return for your money; that you are
tired; that others must take their chances
in such places, etc. All true No one
disputes what you say or think. But if
you are man you know you are acting
the boor. You feel mean, and no logic will
drive away that feeling. Americans are
instinctively gentlemen and ladies. If
they follow the impulses of that instinct
they act becomingly and feel correspond
ingly better. If they hold the impulse in
allegiance and reason out a different
course they may reason out an incontro-
vertible conclusion. But it is not salts
factory. 1t is not creditable to them
Chicago Mail.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-09
The King of the Dudes.

When the King of the Dudes was in
Long Branch in July he had no imitators,
but here he had several youths in compe-
tition. One, in particular, goes about say
ing, II change my clothes oftener than he
does. I've got forty-seven suits here with
me. I'm a better figure and I've got
money, while he is broken down. Yet no
one seems to notice what / do and run
after me-" The King was sold out here
by the sheriff lost autumn. He owed
right and left, and his horses, clothes,
neckties, and canes all went under the
hammer. Yet he is back again, looking
better then ever before and with great
many clothes, but no stable, no florist, no
line of bowling darkies wherever he goes.
He is q genial, gentlemanly young man,
and has host of friends. "Don't take
him for FOOL" said a friend yesterday;
she has got good deal of sense. 1t cost
him 100000 to get it; but he has got it,
all the same"
He told good story the other day. He
said he came upon wealthy lady and
her little daughter listening to the morn
ing music on the piazza. The lady's maid
handed her letter which she tore open
and proceeded to read. The little daugh-
ter looked at her and exclaimed: I'm
sorry; hoped that was from pa. Why
doesn't he writer" "How do you know it
isn't from par" the mother inquired. BE
cause you're reading lot of it," the little
girl replied. IF it was from pa it would
just say, Dear ma, am sorry you aren't
feeling well. Enclosed please find check.
Your loving husband, Sam"
The very opposite and contradiction of
the chief dude in almost all respects is
broker who is here and is noted as being
the homeliest man in Wall street. His
face il nearly all nose and his beard Is
OF many colors, ranging from the deep
of his mustache to the black, brown and
white of his chin whiskers. He defes
public opinion in this precisely fashion
able resort by wearing Mackinaw hat
the law this year being that straw hats
are not in good form because they come
within every ones means. 1t is said that
he made 500 by winning a bet that he
was not the ugliest man in New York.
He won it by producing his son.-Sara-
toga Cor. New York Sun.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-09
The Illinois State Fair.

CHICAGO, March ii. Irving Pearce, Of
the state board of agriculture. returned from
Springfield Friday, and said he was by no
means discouraged by the action of the house
in designating Springfield as the permanent
location of the state fair THE members Of
the house." he said, Gin their haste to defeat
Chicago quite overlooked the fact that it was
not in their power, as matters stand at pres
emit, to name any place for a permanent
fair. That right belongs, by act of the legis-
lature, to the board of agriculture alone, and
all the house was asked to do was to pass an
enabling act, permitting the board to fix the
fair permanently, instead Of being obliged,
as now, to move it about the state every two
wears.